Emilia Margoni

I am a Humboldt Fellow at the MCMP (Munich) for a project titled “Critical phenomena and the open systems view. Towards a novel, anti-fundamentalist framework” under Stephan Hartmann’s  supervision. 

From 2024 to 2026 I was a postdoctoral fellow on the project Space, Time and Causation in Quantum Gravity led by Baptiste Le Bihan. I received my PhD in Philosophy (2024) from a joint program of the University of Florence and the University of Pisa (supervisor: Elena Castellani), in co-tutorship with the University of Geneva (supervisor: Christian Wüthrich). Before that, I completed a master’s in philosophy at Sapienza University of Rome (2020), a master’s in physics of matter at the University of Pisa (2017) and a bachelor’s in physics at Roma3 University (2015).  

My main research interests lie at the intersection of theoretical physics and metaphysics, with a particular regard on the ontological status of spacetime within quantum gravity projects and inter/intra theoretic relations across physical frameworks. My PhD focused on the group field theory approach to quantum gravity as an attempt at unification in physics opening novel and fascinating insights on foundational physics, epistemology, and metaphysics. During my postdoc in Geneva, I explored possible ways to understand causation in quantum gravity, with a specific focus on causal set theory. With my Humboldt fellowship, I aim to unravel the fruitfulness of the open systems view for a class of phenomena in condensed matter physics.